After the success with my skirt pattern I started working on a simple skirt. I decided to use skirt 117 from the March 2007 issue of Burda WOF as an inspiration. I wanted to sew that skirt last year but then I didn't have enough fabric. The pattern looked simple enough, and I had already copied the Burda pieces so I had something I could look at if I needed help.

The skirt itself pretty much stayed the same, I just cut off about 7" at the hem for the flounces. The wrapover piece was also easy to draw. It was more difficult to draw the flounces. My book explains well how to calculate the flounces for the straight hemline. I was successful there on my first try, and I also measured Burda's pattern piece and could follow their construction. But the flounce for the wrapover piece was another story altogether, there was no explanation in the book how to work with the curved hemline and the different angles.

I then measured Burda's pattern piece and tried to draw my own conclusions from that and to transfer these to my own measurements. I came up with a rather strange looking piece. Originally I had thought I could omit the muslin since I hadn't made any changes to the skirt itself, but the flounce pattern looked so strange I decided I had to make one anyway.

To save time (and fabric) I just cut off my sloper muslin and added the wrapover and flounce pieces. And believe it or not, it worked great! I love the muslin, the flounces look like they are supposed to. I have no idea if I was just lucky or if I was on the right track with my ideas. But I sure had a lot of fun with the drawing process, it was a welcome relief from doing the same boring alterations over and over again. Um Arbeit (und Stoff) zu sparen, habe ich dann das Probemodell vom Grundschnitt unten abgeschnitten und die Überrockbahn und Volants angefügt. Und siehe da, es hat super geklappt. Das Probemodell gefällt mir gut, die Volants sehen aus wie geplant. Ob das jetzt Zufall war oder ob meine Ideen richtig waren - keine Ahnung. Auf jeden Fall hat die Bastelei großen Spaß gemacht, und es war schön, dass es mal was Anderes war und nicht immer die gleichen langweiligen Änderungen.